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Make an Impact Monday: Rays of Sunshine

Today’s Make an Impact Monday organization is so so needed right now. Rays of Sunshine is an organization based in Texas that helps children all over get the care they need so that the children can focus more on academics.
This is their vision statement.

A world where all students’ physiological needs are met first. Rays of Sunshine understands the important role that physiological needs such as food, clothes, shoes, and proper supplies play in a student’s livelihood. If these vital needs are not met first then the student’s academic success rate diminishes dramatically.

As a former educator for over …

Make an Impact Monday: Deaf Heartbeat

Happy Monday!! I am so excited to share today’s nonprofit with you! My beautiful friend, Selina, started this organization out of reasons that are deeply personal. From the burden on her heart has come an amazing organization that has caught like wildfire and has helped families all over the United States. This is Selina’s story.

Selina:

90 to 95 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents who often don’t know sign language and struggle to communicate with their own child. My family was one of those statistics. My sister, Roxanne, was diagnosed as Deaf at the age of …

The Power of our Words on the Church

This beautiful church above is the church that my husband and I were married in over 18 years ago. His brother was married there two years before we were and his parents were married in the same church decades earlier. You can imagine how meaningful this church is to us and the heartache we must have felt a few weeks ago when developers came and tore down this beautiful, historical place of worship and began building condominiums instead. As devastated as we are about this personal injustice, I was reminded how much damage we can do to the church ourselves …

Heather Bowman